[2450] in bugtraq
Re: fork()
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nathan Lawson)
Tue Dec 12 14:07:33 1995
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 1995 11:59:44 -0800
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From: Nathan Lawson <nlawson@statler.csc.calpoly.edu>
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.91.951210104255.28802A-100000@clark.net> from "Alex
Leipold" at Dec 10, 95 10:45:37 am
> O'm new to the list, so Im not sure if this has been covered, but someone
> can crash any system with a few lines of code. (tested on UNIX, LINUX)
>
> Gcc it, run it and whatever system your on will crash. Is their any way
> to stop users from doing this? I.e. restricting number of process that
> can run?
Try changing the setrlimit() in login. In particular, I think you might want
to set RLIMIT_NPROC to something small like 60. That way, any programs spawned
by login (and its child shells) will have that hard limit.
-Nate
